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With some delay, happy to share that I have completed my PhD and I’m visiting
@RealityLabs
as a Research Scientist this year. I already miss everyone
@Stanford
, but I’m excited to be back in Toronto and I very much look forward to working with new colleagues
@Meta
.
📣 I’m recruiting 1-2 PhD students interested in
#HCI
,
#AR
, and Spatial Computing. More information:
If you’re interested, apply to Princeton CS () by Dec 15 and mention my name in your application ✨
We have multiple summer
#internship
opportunities at Meta Reality Labs Research (in Toronto). If you are a PhD student in
#HCI
and interested in AR/VR and gestural interactions, apply here:
A year ago today, I brought my research setup home from our lab. Reflecting on the past year, I realize I didn’t pay as much attention to my wfh setup as I should have, and now my knees and back are very unhappy 🥴 But I just found this checklist through Stanford that is helpful:
Yesterday, I was proud to see the strong PhD defense of
@ParastooAbtahi
. She completed a brilliant PhD on "From Haptic Illusions to Beyond-Real Interactions in Virtual Reality". Parastoo started working with me and
@dSeanMustard
in Mechanical Engineering 6 years ago. 1/5
I’m in New Orleans and excited to present our
#CHI2022
paper “Beyond Being Real: A Sensorimotor Control Perspective on Interactions in Virtual Reality” tomorrow at 10 AM CDT w/
@sqhough
,
@landay
, &
@dSeanMustard
Short Talk:
Paper:
Join us Friday! Our next
#HCIISeminarSeries
guest will be
@parastooabtahi
, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
@Princeton
.
🎙️"From Haptic Illusions to Beyond Real Interactions in Virtual Reality"
📅Fri., Jan. 26
🕜1:30pm
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗
🥳👏👏Congratulations to the 2024 ACM
#SIGCHI
awardees!
We recognize 13 SIGCHI members receiving lifetime research and practice, societal impact, and outstanding dissertation awards, as well as 10 being inducted into the SIGCHI Academy!
1/6🧵
Congrats to
@parastooabtahi
for presenting her thesis talk - From Haptic Illusions to Beyond-Real Interactions in VR! it was such a joy to co-advise her with
@landay
!
Looking forward to presenting our work "Beyond The Force: Using Quadcopters to Appropriate Objects and the Environment for Haptics in Virtual Reality" at CHI'19! Video: | Paper: |
#CHI2019
#VR
#Drones
#Haptics
@Stanford
If you're interested in building a cage for your
#drone
, I've shared our process in a new blog post: . We used this safe-to-touch drone for
#haptics
in
#VR
, which you can read about in our upcoming
#CHI2019
paper:
Today I'll be presenting "Beyond The Force: Using Quadcopters to Appropriate Objects and the Environment for Haptics in Virtual Reality" at
#CHI2019
! Come join us in room Boisdale1 at 2:40 PM. For those who can't make it, here is a summary of our paper:
“TeamLab: Continuity” at the Asian Art Museum was a magical wonderland!
Also, a fun place to observe people and their perception of causality, as everyone was trying to figure out what aspects of the exhibit were interactive and in what way.
Looking forward to hosting this year's PhD in technical HCI office hour on Friday, November 11, 10-11am ET, with Professors
@parastooabtahi
@dj_hci
@amypavel
@tisjune
! Q&A: We will discuss common questions in the office hour and answer directly in the doc.
We conducted a survey and follow-up interviews to understand non-digital and manual self-tracking practices and the role of technology.
With Victoria Ding,
@apeelingbananna
, Tommy Bruzzese,
@alyssaromanos
, Elizabeth Murnane,
@dSeanMustard
, and
@landay
:
We hosted a virtual research lab tour for a group of ~20 high school students on SpatialChat and it worked!!! w/ Elyse, Brian,
@_ejgonz_
,
@alexafay
, and
@jingyitweets
I’m curious… how many PhD dissertations have you read just for the content?
So excluding yours, those you read as examples when you were writing yours, your students’, and those you were asked to give feedback on (e.g., for a friend or as part of the committee).
Oh-so grateful for my research advisors (old and new) ... words cannot describe.
Please support your students the best way you can - means more than you think!
Announcing our paper on Adaptive Multimodal Assistants (AMMA) at
#IEEEVR2024
! We're presenting a new framework for guidance programs that adapts to users' needs. Join us Thursday, 8:30-9:45 AM in Ballroom H.
I brought the aurora borealis to my bedroom, now that I can’t travel to see it! :)
The beautiful
#AugmentedReality
artwork is called Caring Northern Light from the WUNDERKAMMER collection by
@olafureliasson
. The mediocre canvases on the wall are my vision board paintings.
Video description: Walking inside a large room. Camera panning from the floor up to the walls in front. Projection of hundreds of bright-colored pink, red, and yellow virtual flowers, streaks of light flashing across, butterflies flying around, and petals moving in the wind.
If you have a paper accepted to
#UbiComp2018
, I highly recommend applying for the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship award. You get up to $1k for travel costs and a chance to organize the
@n2women
meeting. I had a great experience last year!
@ubicomp
I find documents with two columns much easier to read, but that’s just a personal preference. My question is not about one format vs. the other - I’m just curious why we use both formats at different stages (i.e., one column for reviewing, but two columns for camera-ready).
A fascinating talk by Dr.
@KaraCooney
, highlighting remarkable women who ruled in ancient Egypt and our perception of women in power today. I can’t stop thinking about what the state of our world would be if women had more power, especially these days...
#InternationalWomensDay
Well-deserved!! This is a fantastic paper that proposes and validates a sensorimotor model for simulating reach redirection, while accounting for sensory uncertainty; an important step towards effective utilization of illusory interactions in VR:
🏆 Our work on sensorimotor simulation of redirected reaching received a Best Paper Award at
#CHI2023
!
With
@dSeanMustard
at
@StanfordHCI
, we explored how stochastic optimal feedback control (SOFC) can be used to broadly simulate redirection in VR.
Looking forward to (virtually) presenting our work at
@ACMUIST
today! I'll be presenting our work REACH+ on expanding the capabilities of robot-mediated haptics in VR, with
@dSeanMustard
and
@parastooabtahi
.
At the final project fair for the course Human-Computer Interaction, 16 student teams showed off research & tool development for interactive & social computing. The teams addressed topics in robotics, education, ethics, art, language and socialization
Congratulations to my amazing advisor
@dSeanMustard
for being named a Sloan Research Fellow! Have always felt very lucky and grateful to have the opportunity to work with you and learn from you! 🎉
Congrats to Professors Anari, Druckmann, Follmer, Good, Ma, Schumer, Sorkin & Zou
@Stanford
on each being named a 2021
#sloanfellow
! We are so excited to be able to support you and your work!
The only reason I can think of is potentially more space for line numbers, annotations, and note-taking? Do most reviewers make in-document edits/comments in their reviewing process?
Announcing WiGRAPH's Rising Stars in Computer Graphics! Ph.D. students and postdocs of underrepresented genders: apply for a two-year program of mentorship and workshops co-located with SIGGRAPH 2022&2023. Travel support provided.
#WiGRAPHRisingStars
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It was exciting to see some highlights from ICRA here on Twitter, but it’s unfortunate that
#ICRA2024
and
#CHI2024
will coincide. Is this usually the case?
@merrierm
I haven’t read this myself, but this was recommended to me for Grounded Theory.
6. Charmaz. 2006. Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis.
Hey
#UIST2023
. We are excited to provide *five free workshop registrations* for anyone who would like to attend the XR+AI workshop (). Selection is needs-based+lottery. Please complete the following form to apply
@ACMUIST
@sigchi
While we highlighted ways in which digital tracking tools may support aspects of these practices, such as granting creative freedom and facilitating reflection through slow designs, we found that for some the richness of the experience is tied to the physicality of the practice.
@thesmitdesai
@e_mln_e
Not sure to what degree of success, but we used it in our work: “Understanding Physical Practices and the Role of Technology in Manual Self-Tracking.” See section 6.3 in our paper:
@merrierm
People have pointed me to these resources in the past, and I found them useful:
1. Miles, Hubberman, and Saldana. Introduction (Qualitative Data Analysis, Ch 1.):
If you have a paper accepted to
#UbiComp2018
, I highly recommend applying for the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship award. You get up to $1k for travel costs and a chance to organize the
@n2women
meeting. I had a great experience last year!
@ubicomp
@leilatakayama
Thanks so much, Leila! Thankfully, I do. I had not heard of this before, but it looks like their next session is virtual, which I don’t think will be as effective for me.
@jeffbigham
Hover Camera looks really cool (or you can pre-order the Hover 2). Fleye Helmet seems pretty safe as well! Or you can build a "safe" cage for the Parrot's Rolling Spider like I have here (using carbon fiber rods, 3D printed joints, and a polypropylene mesh)!